History Music / StatusQuo

* CareerResurrection: PunkRock and tensions within the band prompted the departure of Lancaster and Coghlan, and accusations that they'd grown stale years ago almost finished them off, but the advent of the NewWaveOfBritishHeavyMetal helped to rejuvenate their fortunes and returned them to the charts.

* FanNickname: If you just say "Quo" people will know who you mean. The classic Rossi/Parfitt/Lancaster/Coghlan line-up also got "The Frantic Four".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Rick recorded a solo album, ''Recorded Delivery'', in 1985, but it was never released. Some of the tracks from the album were used as B-sides to Quo singles.

* CoverAlbum: ''Don't Stop'', ''Famous In The Last Century'' and ''Riffs''.

** ''Piledriver'' ends with an epic cover of [[TheDoors "Roadhouse Blues"]] (7:31).
** ''Hello'' ends with "Forty-Five Hundred Times" (9.58). Live versions of this song go on for even longer, [[UpToEleven sometimes lasting for around twenty minutes]].

* EpicRocking: Each album from 1970 to 1976 (with the exclusion of ''On The Level'') includes at least one, usually as the album closer.

** ''Hello'' ends with "Forty-Five Hundred Times" (9.58). Live versions of this song [[UpToEleven go on for even longer, sometimes lasting for around twenty minutes]].

** ''Hello'' ends with "Forty-Five Hundred Times" (9.58). Live versions of this song go on for even longer, sometimes lasting for around twenty minutes.

* LiveAlbum: Quite a few. The most notable is ''Live!'', which was released in 1977 and is considered one of the best live albums ever made. There's also ''Tokyo Quo'' (which was also released in 1977 and, until recently, only available in Japan) and ''Live Alive Quo'' (1992). For the Frantic Four Reunion in 2013, three live albums were produced, each one featuring recordings from different show.

* LongRunnerLineUp: They've had three of the second type described on the trope page. The first was Rossi, Parfitt, Lancaster and Coghlan, with keyboardist Andy Bown becoming increasingly integrated into the group, but remaining credited as a guest musician for a while for contractual reasons. The second was Rossi, Parfitt and Bown with new bassist and drummer Rhino Edwards and Jeff Rich. This one lasted for fourteen years until Rich left and was replaced by Matt Letley, who was with them until 2013. Leon Cave took his place as drummer.

* LongRunnerLineUp: They've had three of the second type described on the trope page. The first was Rossi, Parfitt, Lancaster and Coghlan, with keyboardist Andy Bown becoming increasingly integrated into the group, but remaining credited as a guest musician for a while for contractual reasons. The second was Rossi, Parfitt and Bown with new bassist and drummer Rhino Edwards and Jeff Rich. This one lasted for fourteen years until Rich left and was replaced by Matt Letley, who's been with them ever since.

* TakeThat: WordOfGod has confirmed that "Down Down" is one of these against the band's critics and detractors. Many people didn't realise this and thought that the lyrics full of innuendo ("Get down, deeper and down").

** ''Dog Of Two Head'' has "Someone's Learning" (7:08)
** ''Piledriver'' ends with an epic cover of [[TheDoors "Roadhouse Blues"]] (7:31)

** ''Quo'' ends with "Slow Train" (7:56)

* SanitySlippageSong: "Twenty Wild Horses"

* CareerResurrection: PunkRock and tensions within the band prompted the departure of Lancaster and Coghlan, and accusations that they'd grown stale years ago almost finished them off, but the advent of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal helped to rejuvenate their fortunes and returned them to the charts.

Notably, they were the band that opened Live Aid at Wembley Stadium with their SignatureSong, "Rockin' All Over the World". When they were unavailable to play Live 8 twenty years later, {{Coldplay}} paid tribute with a performance of the song when they opened that show.

One of Britain's most consistently popular rock groups, Status Quo was formed in 1962 by school friends Francis Rossi (lead guitar, vocals) and Alan Lancaster (bass guitar, vocals). The classic Quo line-up, which lasted until 1985, was completed with the addition of John Coghlan (drums, percussion) and Rick Parfitt (rhythm guitar, vocals). After brief flirtations with ProgressiveRock and PsychedelicRock yielded little success, Quo hit on the formula that's sustained them for the past forty years with the 1970 album ''Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon'', the first to feature their [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth straightforward, no frills]], [[BluesRock blues-based]] boogie rock style powered by Rossi and Parfitt's dual Telecasters.

* CareerResurrection: PunkRock and tensions within the band which prompted the departure of Lancaster and Coghlan, the advent of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal helped to rejuvenate their fortunes and returned them to the charts.